POS

Data applications are ubiquitous in retail point-of-sale (POS), vending, and gaming. In addition to payment processing functionality, POS technologies enable retailers and vendors to track sales, rebates, and inventories. This data allows businesses to populate customer profiles and identify buying patterns, which in turn drives business strategies and boosts the efficiency of supply chains. For vendors, M2M technology also ensures accurate cash collections, enables management of driver routes, and provides immediate notification of security attacks or breaches.

While legacy POS technology utilizes phone lines, merchants are realizing not only cost-savings but dramatically increased revenues by moving to wireless POS devices. It is estimated that by 2009, one in four POS terminals sold will be wireless. SkyTel’s unique, dedicated data network requires no set-up time (our device is always on) so whatever the transaction, it happens fast.